[grc] [Amarcwinreps] Fwd: Release Margaretta D'Arcy!

[Frieda Werden]

The latest I just got about her, right after sending this email, is that
she is out of jail and protesting again at Shannon - but not (yet) on the
runway.

On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 2:39 AM, Bianca <bianca at isiswomen.org> wrote:

>  Dear Frieda
> That was monthes ago.
> I guess as we haven't had any news from her since then, she is no longer
> in jail. I hope she is fine.
> I guess no action is needed.
> Warmest
> Bianca
>
>
> On 19.10.14 05:45, Frieda Werden wrote:
>
> Dear all, I am only now seeing the email requesting me to draft the
> statement about releasing Margaretta D'Arcy.  My apologies, I was in a very
> stressful personal situation at the time and I did not manage to see all my
> emails.  WINGS did get a program about Margaretta's sentencing on the air,
> at least.  Did any statement go out from AMARC WIN?  Has anyone heard if
> Margaretta is still in jail?  If we have a statement, I could carry it with
> me to the Beijing + 20 prepcom and try for further endorsements from media
> women there.
>
> On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 1:24 PM, Secretariat AMARC <
> secretariat at si.amarc.org> wrote:
>
>>  Dear all,
>>
>> It will be my pleasure to do the translation to both Spanish and French,
>> and Maru would just need then to review my translation to Spanish.
>>
>> Thanks a lot everyone for your kind follow-up, and thanks Frieda to have
>> forwarded this info to AMARC WIN reps.
>>
>> Warmest regards,
>>
>> Valérie
>>
>> Le 2014-01-28 16:21, Bianca a écrit :
>>
>> Dear Frieda
>> Dear Maru
>> I received the news yesterday about her brave action and the imprisonment
>> that she is facing.
>> I fully agree, that AMARC-WIN should do a statment.
>> Frieda would you like to draft something? May by Maru and Valerie can
>> help in translating into French and Spanish.
>> That would be great.
>>
>> Warmest
>> Bianca
>>
>>
>> On 28.01.14 19:39, Maru Chávez wrote:
>>
>> Dear Frieda, thank you for sending this action.  I remenber Margareta
>> very well at AMARC´s genenral asambly in Jordan and then as WIN
>> representatives for Europe. I think that AMARC should do a statement.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Maru
>>
>>
>> El 21/01/2014 09:50 p.m., Frieda Werden escribió:
>>
>> Margaretta, producer of Radio Pirate Woman in Galway, Ireland, is a
>> longtime member of AMARC and contributor to WINGS.
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Global Women's Strike/Phila <philly at globalwomenstrike.net>
>> Date: Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 12:08 PM
>> Subject: Release Margaretta D'Arcy!
>> To: wings at wings.org
>>
>>
>>
>> *URGENT ACTION ALERT…. FREE IRISH ANTI-WAR ACTIVIST…*
>>
>> 79 year old Margaretta D’Arcy has been jailed for protesting the use of
>> the Shannon civilian airport in Ireland for US wars.  We in the US have
>> a responsibility to protest at the jailing of those opposing war crimes
>> made in the USA!
>>
>> *Please see below for what you can do to demand her release.*  Also:
>>
>> ** Kay & Sian, veterans of Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp with Ms
>> Darcy, invite support for her;
>>
>> **Statement from Global Women’s Strike including GWS Ireland demands her
>> release;
>>
>> **Endorsements of this Statement are pouring in, including from Birgitta
>> Jonsdottir, Member of Parliament, Iceland.
>>
>>    Dear friends,
>>
>> Please find below a statement from Global Women’s Strike demanding that
>> our dear friend and colleague Margaretta D’Arcy, be released.  She has been
>> jailed for three months in Ireland, for protesting the use of Shannon’s
>> civilian airport for US wars.  She is only allowed one phone call a day and
>> two half-hour visits a week of no more than three adults.
>>
>> Many people internationally are shocked and furious that Margaretta has
>> been jailed and are demanding her immediate release!
>>
>> We first met Margaretta at Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp outside the
>> US Air Force nuclear weapons base in Berkshire UK, where we lived during
>> 1983/84.  Margaretta stayed there in the ’80s and ’90s, living outside for
>> weeks at a time, helping maintain the camp’s presence and anti-war
>> activities at Yellow (Main) Gate. Yellow Gate women fought and eventually
>> won the fantastic legal victory that the base was illegal and the Common
>> was restored to the people.
>>
>> Invest in caring not killing!
>>
>> Kay and Sian
>> (Orange Gate 1983-84)
>>
>>
>> *Statement to the Press and the Public*
>>
>> We are outraged to learn that our dear sister and colleague Margaretta
>> D’Arcy has been jailed – and for three months! – for protesting the use
>> of the civilian airport at Shannon for US wars.  And we are deeply worried
>> about her health and well-being as a cancer patient.  One of the many
>> public services Ms D’Arcy has performed is to protest the Irish
>> government’s many years of complicity in US war crimes and its destruction
>> of Irish neutrality.  She has been dedicated to highlighting that the most
>> devastating impact of war is on women and our children, both directly from
>> the bombs that rain down on us, and by paying with our poverty for the
>> horrendous weapons of massive destruction that surround us all.
>>
>> Ms D’Arcy is a veteran of Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp, which
>> opposed the US military placing cruise missiles on common land in England,
>> and won – the camp is no longer a military base.  To dissent from a
>> perspective of permanent war and austerity, and demand the protection of
>> life and the planet, is increasingly labeled subversive and even criminal
>> behavior.  While war criminals are allowed to pass through Irish airports
>> and financial criminals go unpunished, the Irish State in thrall to the US,
>> UK, EU and IMF Masters of War has imprisoned a pensioner who has
>> dedicated herself to highlighting and preventing war crimes.
>>
>> *An attack on courageous and principled Margaretta D’Arcy is an attack on
>> us all.*
>>
>> *We demand the immediate release of Margaretta D’Arcy.*
>>
>> Selma James
>> on behalf of Global Women’s Strike
>>
>> Maggie Ronayne
>> on behalf of Global Women’s Strike, Ireland
>>
>> *Please join the demand for Margaretta’s release by any of the following:*
>>
>> ·         *Add your signature and/or organization, endorsing the GWS
>> statement below.*   Please send back to gws at globalwomenstrike.net and we
>> will add to the final list to be handed in to the Irish embassy in London
>> at the demonstration in support of Margaretta on Wednesday.
>> https://www.facebook.com/events/655038224534808/
>>
>> ·         *And/or write your own statement in support, sending us a copy*
>> .
>>
>> ·         *Circulate the statement/s to your networks and put on your
>> blogs, website, Facebooks, tweets, etc...*
>>
>> ·          *Write to Irish Minister for Defense Alan Shatter demanding
>> the government release Margaretta - *alan.shatter at oir.ie
>>
>> ·         *Send support cards to Margaretta: c/o Limerick Jail, Limerick
>> City, Ireland. *
>>
>> ·          *There will be a regular picket outside Limerick prison on
>> Fridays at 5-6 pm.  See below for LINKS to coverage of protest in Ireland.*
>>
>> The Guardian <http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian>, Monday 20 January
>> 2014 21.00 GMT
>>
>> My mother, the anti-war activist and writer Margaretta D'Arcy, is
>> serving a three-month sentence in Limerick prison for trying to stop the
>> violation of Irish neutrality by US military planes, which stop over at
>> Shannon airport on the way to and from the war in Afghanistan. She took
>> peaceful direct action to stop crime being committed by lying down on the
>> runway of the airport. Margaretta, the widow of playwright John Arden,
>> is 79 and undergoing treatment for cancer. Imprisoning her for an act of
>> conscience is inhumane. I call upon the Irish government to release her
>> immediately and for the British government to use its influence to secure
>> her release. To keep her spirits up while she remains in prison, I urge
>> readers to send cards c/o Limerick Prison, Mulgrave Street, Limerick,
>> Ireland.
>> *Jake Arden*
>>
>>
>> *London * * * * * **
>>
>> *I am based in Iceland, but I fully support you and show my solidarity
>> with Margaretta D'Archy hereby.    *Birgitta Jonsdottir, Poetician,
>> activist and a member of the Icelandic Parliament.
>> * * * * * * *
>>
>>
>>
>> *FREE SHANNON AIRPORT FROM THE US MILITARY! NOT MARGARETTA D’ARCY!  Write
>> to Government TDs and to Minister Shatter: *alan.shatter at oir.ie
>>
>>
>> webcal://www.facebook.com/ical/u.php?uid=100000384772555&key=AQD3NAHxvJRL59no
>> https://www.facebook.com/galway.antiwar
>> https://www.facebook.com/FreeShannon?fref=ts http://www.shannonwatch.org
>> http://www.irishantiwar.org
>> online petition contact.ie/node/271 <http://www.contact.ie/node/271>
>> youtube clips re protests last Fri
>> http://youtu.be/Y8Gsw-uKw3I
>> http://youtu.be/k0GDbIc3yTg
>> http://youtu.be/916TFoITexY
>>
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>> Bianca Miglioretto
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>> Turnerstr. 29, 8006 Zurich, Switzerland
>> Isis International Associate
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> Frieda Werden, Series Producer
> WINGS: Women's International News Gathering Service www.wings.org
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> Bianca Miglioretto
> Community Radio Trainer and Consultant
> Turnerstr. 29, 8006 Zurich, Switzerland
> Isis International Associate
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Frieda Werden, Series Producer
WINGS: Women's International News Gathering Service www.wings.org